Facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development

Contribute

2,507,814 Dec unique visitors

News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Development

Kotlin is *Way* More Than Just Android

Justin Lee goes over a number of frameworks and libraries available for Kotlin development and not once have to touch the Android emulator.

All in development

Architecture & Design

API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?

What is the single best API technology you should always use? Thomas Betts moderated the discussion, with the goal to understand some of the high-level features and capabilities of three popular technologies for implementing APIs. The discussion covers some of the pros and cons of GraphQL and gRPC, and why you might use them instead of a RESTful API.

The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture

In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding challenges. Also discussed are two practical examples of how to create a distributed database and an encrypted table with DistSQL.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

DevOps in No-Code and Low-Code Environments

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kevin Boyle about bringing DevOps culture practices and tools into low-code and no-code environments.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Deploying Service Mesh in Production

Christian Posta shares practical guidance for how to adopt a service mesh for an organization including separating out control plane and data plane, plugging in with observability tools, leveraging gateways appropriately, rolling out mTLS safely, and overall preparing for troubleshooting and debugging.